Introduction Flashcards
Asphasia?
Trouble producing or understanding speech
Prosopagnosia?
Unable to recognize faces, but objects are fine
Visual agnosia?
Unable to recognize visual objects, but faces are fine
What is dualism?
Interraction between the mind and the body
Who introduced dualism?
Descartes
What did Hermann von Helmholtz study?
The nerve impulse
Who introduced the JND?
Gustav Fencher
Who introduced mental chronometry?
Franciscus Donders
Who introduced the additive factors logic?
Franciscus Donders
Who was the founder of structuralism?
Wundt
Wundt was the founder of?
a) analytical intrusion
b) accurate observation of visible behavior
c) additive factors logic
d) verify and compare groups experimentally
a) analytical intrusion
Who was the founder of behaviorism?
Watson
In an experiment, the variable that is manipulated is called?
Independent variable
Operational definition?
Designed to model or represent a concept or theoretical definition
Who introduced the classic conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
Who introduced the operant conditioning?
Skinner
What phenomenon used Gestalt psychologists?
Apparent motion
What is a correlational research?
Measures association between two variables
What are subject variables?
Criteria on which the groups are matched
What are control variables?
Aspects of the experiment that are equal for the experimental and control group
What is the internal validity?
Is the change of the independend variable A the actual cause of the change of dependent variable B?
What is external validity?
To which extent can you generalize the results to the real world and intended population?
